The Lincoln Museum

Designated Kentucky's official Lincoln Museum in 1991.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Lincoln-related historic sites


Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
The neo-classical marble and granite building on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Ky., houses the cabin is symbolic of the home where Abraham Lincoln was born. Lincoln was born two months after his parents moved to Sinking Spring Farm, where they lived until Lincoln was two.


Visit the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic
Web Site


 

 

 

Knob Creek Farm
Lincoln's earliest recollections were of his days at Knob Creek, just 10 miles from the farm of his birth. The Lincoln family lived here from 1811 until they moved to Indiana in 1816,


Visit Lincoln's Boyhood Home at Knob Creek.


Lincoln Heritage House
The Lincoln Heritage House was restored to perpetuate the memory of Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham, a man humble in origin and deed who probably gave not a single thought to history or to the consequences of the events of the age in which he lived.


Click here to learn more about the Lincoln Heritage House


Lincoln Homestead
State Park
 Lincoln Homestead State Park preserves the heritage of Lincoln's parents, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. On park grounds are a reproduction of the boyhood home of Lincoln's father, and the home in which the President's mother lived during her courtship with Thomas Lincoln.


Read more about Lincoln Homestead State Park.


 

 

 

 

Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln Memorial
The Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln Memorial at Freeman Lake Park in Elizabethtown was established to keep alive the memory of the Abraham Lincoln's stepmother.


Learn more about Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln.


Profile of LaRue County
Rolling hillsides greet
you when you visit
LaRue County. The
county has a land
area of 263 square
miles. It is 56 miles
south of Louisville, Ky., and 140 miles
northeast of
Nashville.


Learn more about Hodgenville and LaRue County!


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